Reproductions opened a new realm of fictionality. How we perceive each other over Twitter is fictional. And the world of images we are talking about is artificial to the nth degree. This whole image world we are talking about is very artificial, highly aestheticized, highly indirect, because it is transferred. Reproductions, in our time, play a bigger role than ever before. | | | | Clean room rave style, 1990s.
(Universal Images Group/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “Reproductions opened a new realm of fictionality. How we perceive each other over Twitter is fictional. And the world of images we are talking about is artificial to the nth degree. This whole image world we are talking about is very artificial, highly aestheticized, highly indirect, because it is transferred. Reproductions, in our time, play a bigger role than ever before.”
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| | rantnrave:// The COPENHAGEN FASHION SUMMIT is a step toward a "circular fashion system." ADIDAS, KERING, H&M, and TARGET endorsed the event, and the sheer scale of these companies makes them most culpable and most poised to enact change, if they can agree and act. It's a step.... Ethical shopping is murky, and this piece brings up how blacked out supply chains are for large companies tryna make it in this world of customers who don't want to hurt others through what they buy. Again, slow progress, but it's something... LOT looks like a mashup of a subscription kit and someone's all-black social media feed. SAMUEL HINE wrote a great piece for GQ STYLE on the newly-launched label, which sends all-black gear to customers on a monthly basis. Love the utilitarian kits that enshroud the uniform inside. Don't want that tattoo gun or bleach bottle hair kit? Then you're not subscribing to the #lifestyle. Team kits are sold out. Spot these squads absorbing the entire light spectrum around them soon... It's high style for the marijuana industry. Weed is showing up in fashion design and editorial spreads, and marijuana startups are taking cues from the fashion and luxury industries. As the marijuana industry bets on further legalization, how else does it intersect with the business of style? Ex-models, designers, founders, and "cannaseurs" in our latest REDEF FashionSET, Higher Times: Selling the Marijuana Lifestyle... Loved this film of poet GLENIS REDMOND reading her poem "The Tao of the Black Plastic Comb"... AQUAZURRA x DE GOURNAY. Assuming a de Gournay painter doesn't show up to at your house to put finishing touches on your feet... That spring gardener look. | | | - HK Mindy Meissen, curator |
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 | The Business of Fashion |
| The long-term viability of a traditional linear economy is now widely questioned by sustainability experts and economists alike. But what would it take for fashion to adopt a closed loop system? | | |
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 | Racked |
| Why you can never be totally sure your clothes were made ethically. | | |
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 | The Fashion Law |
| The fashion industry is a complex web of connections -- and this might prove to be more of a liability than an asset. | | |
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| Racked |
| In the era of Trump, consumer nihilism is an alluring (if empty) temptation. | | |
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 | GQ Style |
| The story behind the all-black fashion subscription service the internet is obsessed with. | | |
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 | High Snobiety |
| The lauded London fashion designer started out as a fine artist. Known for his aggressive, strapped silhouettes, he talks about the state of menswear. | | |
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 | The Telegraph |
| Loewe may have chosen to launch its home collection at Milan design week, but the Spanish luxury brand followed up its global introductions in London with a showcase at Liberty department store. | | |
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 | Nowness |
| Bringing the poetry of spoken word artist Glenis Redmond to the screen, LA-based director Irving Hillman turns his lens on the ritualistic use of hot combs, a hair straightening practice in America's black community that extends to many areas of the African diaspora, and which reflects the longstanding pressure on people of color to reject their natural physical characteristics in favor of white beauty ideals. | | |
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 | i-D Magazine |
| In 2017, tracksuits say more about the real fashion of our times than many collections by luxury houses, yet they're frequently labeled as streetwear. Why? | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| The start-up had $730 million in sales last year and raised just $42 million, a relatively modest sum for a high-flying Silicon Valley start-up. | | |
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 | South China Morning Post |
| Green is the new luxury, says the Central Saint Martins graduate, who started cutting up her jeans to make jackets as a teenager, and admits her designs are ‘a bit crazy’ | | |
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 | Bloomberg |
| As Americans abandon department stores, sales at Macy’s Inc. and Kohl’s Corp. are falling even faster than analysts expected. | | |
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 | Glossy |
| Genius, the media company known for its website hosting the world’s largest collection of music lyrics -- complete with reader and artist-sourced footnotes regarding song meanings and creation -- is taking an unexpected turn toward fashion with today’s launch of its 1997 Collection. | | |
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 | The Associated Press |
| In the heart of the capital of a nation founded on ideals of social equality, the business arm of the Cuban military has transformed a century-old shopping arcade into a temple to conspicuous capitalism. | | |
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 | Fashionista |
| The hot new thing in brand extension is incubators and accelerators -- but why? | | |
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| The Fashion Law |
| With gender identity and expression seemingly becoming an ever-expanding, decadent splash pad of personal freedom in today’s tightening political backdrop, it would make logical business sense that fashion -- the long advocate of wearable art and self-articulation -- would join in. | | |
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| High Snobiety |
| Nike isn't often late to the party when it comes to innovation. However, a tiny upstart, Spira Footwear, was using spring-loaded shoes way before them. | | |
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 | Die, Workwear! |
| Monty Don, an English TV presenter and writer on horticulture (perhaps best known for presenting the BBC television series "Gardener’s World") once wrote something titled “Dirty Dressing” at "The Guardian." | | |
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| The New York Times |
| The top beauty retailer in the world is embracing technology, not fighting it, and making its stores into playgrounds. | | |
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 | BBC Future |
| It’s a machine that many people love to hate. What will it take to improve the experience of the self-checkout? | | |
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